Menses

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Menses \Men"ses\, n. pl. [L. mensis month, pl. menses months,
     and the monthly courses of women. Cf. {Month}.] (Med.)
     The catamenial or menstrual discharge, a periodic flow of
     blood or bloody fluid from the uterus or female generative
     organs.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  menses
       n : the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of
           nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women
           were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a
           woman does not take the gout unless her menses be
           stopped"--Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in
           males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the
           catamenia begin to flow in females"--Aristotle [syn: {menstruation},
            {menstruum}, {catamenia}, {period}, {flow}]